For purposes of this Traffic Code the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway when 50% or more of the frontage thereof for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business.
CROSSWALK. That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation of curb and property lines at intersections or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
CURB. The extreme edge or lateral boundary of a roadway whether marked by curbing or not so marked.
DEAD STORAGE. Any vehicle not legally licensed in the current year, not operable upon demand, not moved within 72 hours from city streets or city-owned parking lots.
DEPARTMENT. The Police Department of the City of Lead, South Dakota.
DIAGONAL PARKING. That a vehicle shall be drawn up to the curb, gutter or sidewalk on the right hand side of the street at an angle of 45 degrees with the curb line thereof, such vehicle to be parked within six inches of the curb, gutter or sidewalk on and along said street upon which such vehicle is parked, and no vehicle shall be parked nearer than one foot to any other vehicle.
DOUBLE PARKING. The parking of a vehicle alongside another vehicle which is parked at the curb.
DRIVER. See OPERATOR or DRIVER.
DRIVEWAY. See PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY.
DWELLING. Any house, lodging, place, residence or tenement.
HIGHWAY, ROADWAY or STREET. Every way or place of whatever nature set apart for the use of vehicles or motor vehicles and including alleys, roads, avenues and public highways.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two or more streets or highways which join one another at an angle whether or not one such street or highway crosses the other, but such area in the case of the point where an alley and street meet shall not be deemed an intersection.
LOADING ZONE. The space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
MOPED. A motor driven cycle equipped with two or three wheels, foot pedals to permit muscular propulsion and an independent power source providing a maximum of two brake horsepower. If a combustion engine is used, the maximum piston or rotor displacement shall be 50 cubic centimeters regardless of the number of chambers in such power source. The power source may not be capable of propelling the vehicle, unassisted, at a speed in excess of 30 miles per hour on a level road surface and is equipped with a power drive system that functions directly or automatically only, not requiring clutching or shifting by the operator after the drive system is engaged.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Motor vehicle, as defined herein, includes all vehicles or machines, trailers, semi trailers, recreational vehicles, truck tractors, and motorcycles, propelled by any power other than muscular and used upon the public streets for the transportation of persons or property or both.
MOTORCYCLES. Every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicle may be included within the term TRACTOR as herein defined.
OCCUPIED RESIDENCE. The house or dwelling occupied by the owner or legal tenant; not to include rental property owned and not occupied by the rental property owner.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNALS. All signals, not inconsistent with this Traffic Code, placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of directing, warning, or regulating traffic.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS. All signs and markings, other than signals, not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected by a public body or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of guiding, directing, warning or regulating traffic.
OPERABLE UPON DEMAND. Owner must at law enforcement request be able to get into the vehicle and start it, drive it forward and backwards to prove that it is road ready and can be driven at any time.
OPERATOR or DRIVER. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
OWNER. A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession, vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Traffic Code.
PARALLEL PARKING. That all motor vehicles or other vehicles shall be drawn up parallel to the curb, gutter or sidewalk on the right hand side of the street; the hub of both wheels on the right hand side of the vehicles are parked, and no vehicles shall be parked nearer than three feet of the front or rear of any other vehicle.
PARKING. The placement of any vehicle in the same vicinity for less than 72 hours.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, co partnership, association, or corporation.
PRIVATE ROAD or DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular travel.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. Any vehicle used primarily for sport, amusement or leisure travel.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a highway not comprising a business district when the frontage on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for residence.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street or highway.
ROAD TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
ROADWAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street or highway. See also HIGHWAY, ROADWAY or STREET.
SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines and adjacent property lines set aside for the use of pedestrians.
SNOWMOBILE. A mechanically driven vehicle in, upon or by which any persons or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a roadway, the motive force of which is applied through a revolving tract, guided by skis, or differential tract operation.
STREET. See HIGHWAY, ROADWAY or STREET.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL. Any device using colored lights, words, shapes or any combinations thereof, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated or not by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided that for the purposes of this Traffic Code a bicycle or a ridden animal shall be deemed a vehicle.
VEHICLE STORAGE. The placement of any vehicle in the same vicinity for over 72 hours.
VICINITY. A residentially zoned area which is within 1,000 feet of the closest boundary of the private property. Measurement of vicinity shall be by the most direct route using public or private right- of-way and not crossing private property.
(Prior Code, § 19-100) (Ord. 1028-14, passed 8-18-2014)